English Express & Business Express

Cris Gontow and Dan Brogan and Dan Brogan

English Express is a course designed with the young adult and adult learner's needs in mind, taking students from beginner to upper-intermediate in three levels. Oral competence is the main focus of the course and it is ideal for adult learners who have to juggle their personal life with a career and want to learn English as quickly and effortlessly as possible. It gives learners a real sense of progress and achievement and enables learners from the very beginning to experiment with effective communication in a professional and social situations in English.

Business Express is part of the broader English Express package. It gives students the chance of having a more adult-oriented course, designed for business and professional people. The English Express suite enables students to learn basic notions of English in Books 1A and 1B. They can then choose to transfer seamlessly to the Business Express series or go on studying general English.

• Levels: 6 levels
• Ages: 15+
• Components:
  • Class and workbook Combo + Audio CD (English Express)
  • Integrated Coursebook + Audio CD (Business Express)
  • Teacher's Book + Class Audio CDs

Key features:

• The series focuses on oral competence allowing learners to express themselves fluently and accurately and features systematic pronunciation work in every unit. It has a sensible approach to grammar and the reading material prepares learners to deal with authentic texts.
• Split, combined editions plus Audio CD provide a handy and comprehensive package for the adult learner and it offers up-to-date topics in line with learner's interests and immediately useful and relevant real-life content.
• With a clear organization, frequent revision to recycle language and a wide range of reading genres, the book prepares learners to deal with authentic texts in the real world.
• The Case Studies provide language consolidation in a skills-based, task-oriented study which has a final product. The Student's Book is integrated in the Teacher's Book and provides imprinted answers.
• Detailed notes for easier lesson preparation, teaching tips and ideas for extra activities and suggestions about how to work with false beginners and mixed-ability groups are also provided.